Package for scouring devices



Feb. 20, 1940. E. s. BRADFORD. JR

PACKAGE FOR SCOURING DEVICES Filed June 20, 1959 INVENTOR I [on A120 S. BPADFOPLLJR.

fiTORN S l tact with each other. It has been found that reason of the spacing sheets, one of which is during shipment and in storage the scouring used for each layer. All injurious contact bedevices tended to force themselves towards one tween the devices themselves and between the side or corner of the container and to become walls of the cases are avoided.

- distorted. I have found that if the pressure on I claim:

the device is restricted to the central portion of A package for scouring devices each consisting 20 o of layers. Thescouring devices in each layer fitted to retain them in spaced relation. 40

res, PATENT oFFlce Edward S. Bradfordfhu, Longrneadow, Mass,

. assignor to Springfield Wire & Tinsel 00., West Springfield, Mass., a corporation of UNITE I s Massachusetts Application June 20, 1939, Serial No. 280,096

1 .Claim. (01. 206-65) This invention relates to packages in which at the bottom and the devices of the other set scouring devices may be shipped and retained having their knobs at the bottom. To hold the duringpending sales. The particular scouring devices in each layer in the desired arrangement device withwhich the invention is concerned is. l a spacing sheet M is provided, having perfora- 5 composed of curled wire masses secured centrally tions adapted to receive the knobs and spaced to to a wooden handle or knob generally bymeans cause the scouring devices to be retained in their of a staple. The curled. wire, while strong desired locations. a y enough to act as an abrasive in the cleaning of The devices. are arranged in layers of similar, 5 cooking dishes andthe like, is of acharacter arrangement, thus permitting the knob of one in which readily takes on a permanent deformation device to make contact only with the central por- 10 if it is retained for any length of time in lateral tion of the corresponding device in the nextlayer. contact with other objects. y As stated above the central portion. is relatively Formerly these jscouring devices have been solid and no distortion is thus caused. The packed in containers and have-been in free con scouring devices are prevented from shifting by the curled wire mass no objectionable distortion of a "curled wire mass secured centrally to a will occur, and the package to be described has knob, comprising a container, a layer of scouring been designed upon this principle. 1 devices arranged in alternating sets within the Referring to the drawing. d container, the devices in one set having their Fig. 1 is altop plan viewof a filled container curled wire portions resting on the container 25 with the cover removed; bottom and the devices in the second set hav-- .Fig. 2 is a side view of the filled package with ing their knobs resting on the container bottom, portions of the container and cover broken away. a spacing sheet having perforations into which The package comprises a container l0 having the knobs of said devices are fitted to retain $0 a cover II which may be of any desired conthem in spaced relation, a second layer of scourstruction. The securing devices each comprise ing devices also arranged in two alternating sets, a curled wire mass l2 secured at its center as each device in one set having the central portion bya staple and to a knob l3. As the staple is of its curled wire mass resting upon the end of buried in the curled wire mass it does not apthe knob of a device in the lower layer, and each" :15 pear in the drawing. The curled wire mass is device in the second set having its knob resting springy and relatively soft in texture except at upon the central portion of the curled wire mass the center where it is secured to the knob. of adevice in the lower layer, and a second spac- In accordance with the invention the devices ing sheet having perforations into which the p are arranged within the container in a plurality knobs of the devices in the second layerare are arranged in two alternating sets, the devices of one set having their curled wireportions EDWARD S., BRADFORD, JR. 

